Phoenix Collection

Author: Shen Congwen
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: I don't understand art, nor can I paint, but growing up in a small mountain town in the Miao region of Western Hunan since childhood, I have been surrounded by the changing colors of plants, rocks, and mountains throughout the seasons, forming different scenes that have deeply imprinted themselves in my memory.
Phoenix is Shen Congwen's hometown. Regarding Phoenix, Shen Congwen said: The mystery of Western Hunan lies in this region, which is not easily understood but worth understanding. Let us use this collection of writings to explore the beautiful, magical, yet painful Western Hunan, especially to understand the Phoenix of that time.
The article "Phoenix Scenery Mountain" is worth mentioning. It is an unfinished prose piece filled with vitality that Shen Congwen wrote at the age of eighty after returning to his hometown. Comparing it with the works he wrote sixty years earlier, such as "At the Private School," let's see if the author's childlike heart has aged.